{"product_id":"the-hinge-of-history-madhav-sethi-9798185988534","title":"The Hinge of History: Making sense of a world in transition - climate, AI, the end of an order, and the road ahead","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor three generations, four quiet supports made the future feel legible. They are failing at once.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are living through something rarer than a crisis. For most of a century, a stable climate, a single power underwriting the rules, information slow enough to be checked, and economies on predictable curves quietly manufactured a world you could plan for. All four are now giving way together - and artificial intelligence is adding a new force beneath everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hinge of History\u003c\/i\u003e is a field guide to that transition. It is not a book of prophecy or of panic. It reads the present as a phase change; holds it against the great transitions that came before - the fall of Rome, the printing press, the 1930s - and against the serious fiction that rehearsed our futures, from Asimov to Octavia Butler; and then asks the only question that matters: where do we go from here, and what would it take to choose well?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear-eyed, humane, and honest about what no one can know, it argues that the outcome is not dictated to us. It is chosen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Madhav Sethi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185988534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Madhav Sethi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002155868415,"sku":"9798185988534","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-hinge-of-history-madhav-sethi-9798185988534","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}